I'd say arXiv would be piracy in the analogy; free, convinient and supported by contributors. Early netflix would be like researchgate; for profit trash scam site.
I'm usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions...
...but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn't exactly cry about it.
I mean he's right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.
Nah, that's "the microscope adds 700 pounds" 😛
Content creators on places like youtube earn between 55%-75% of the revenue. Academics get nothing from elsevier.
Permanently unpaid intern for Elsevier
You don't have to pay to your employer as an unpaid intern.
Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.
If Elsevier and the other major academic publishers are the cables in this metaphor, what is the closest equivalent to early-Netflix?
ArXiv?
I'd say arXiv would be piracy in the analogy; free, convinient and supported by contributors. Early netflix would be like researchgate; for profit trash scam site.
I'm usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions...
...but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn't exactly cry about it.
Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
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